From those tangerines of unbelievable bargin that I didn’t took in for the Ram year, I did menage to recuperated a bouquet worth of flowers from the street, as one of joyful by-standers when passers-by spotted a grad-opening of a store/office (I dont know to-this-date what it was) was throwing away, or at least letting people take home all those flowers delievered to their doorsteps just hours before.

Trashed after an hour or so of spotlight, they are now in a vase, on a table, for an extended fortnight of their lifespan.

The dust has long settled after the World Cup 2014 in Brazil. Football aside, the theme song and its video really sounded and looked heavily American, albeit international production. So much for Brazil’s backbone of photographing and fingerprinting Americans visitors knocking on their doors on arrival, when it comes to big money, multinationals still dictate how events are run or sponsored. This couldn’t be truer weird and somewhat vulgar and definitely violent (towards the end) parody which par hasard caught my attention today:

So the Brazilians spent all that money, threw in some false pride, garnished with cultural absence and misrepresentations and topped off with some posh infrastructures, et Voilà! Who eventually would benefit? Wait, Rio will host the Olympics in less than 48 months and the story keeps on fermenting itself.

Did I record this because of music or because of marathon? Like most things in life, it doesn’t have to be laid out in advance with precision.

So old your camera for some acoustic good vibes, even with few bystanders because it’s past 4 hours 3 minutes from the beginning of time and Indian summer took a day off because it was Sunday. Eventually, just eventually, if you are a patient observer, time, space, people, gesture, moves would fit into this three dimensonal jigsaw puzzle of fun.

六月在全球多處是同志驕傲月Pride month。不是共產黨的同志，而是同性戀的同志！偶然的機會下友人傳來西班牙馬德里同志驕傲節的搞笑短片。
一首七十年代的舊歌Love is in the Air配以幽默原素，讓你捧腹大笑一番。我怎樣說也是七十年代初的產品（有小機會是六九年尾結合製造，但絕對完成於一九七零年），所以對70s有不用隱瞞的偏幫。這超花枝招展廣告（減去虎背熊腰的搏鬥）讓Love is in the Air又一次重生。

How could this song be soooo campy?! Yes it reminds me those outrageous costumes on old American TV, or the coconut trees in the tropics and sleezy dancing with people playing the maracas.

Too bad the gay video came to an abrupt end. The orginal video is not as interesting as the song, oh well… the sleezing dancing that I was never part of, merely passive listening as a child! Oldies with a new reincarnation， thanx to Madrid Pride in 2012 – mischievous and fun.

The world needs to go Rehab…. that’s my conclusion from the havoc in 2011:
The earthquake in Japan, the economic crisis in Europe. Trust me, 2012 will NOT get any better ‘cuz we are not changing the way we CONSUME in radical ways.

Environmental wise, rich countries don’t want to be responsible for the luxury that they enjoy having went through industrilisation whn polluting the planet. Take Canada, which quits Kyoto, probably because it doesn’t want to pay up $1,600 for each Canadian for failing green house gas emission targets in the Kyoto protocol. Truely shameful for all Canadians, myself included.

countries missing emission targets 減排不到位

we have to face the music, not waiting til the morning after the NYE party, when people are plunged into post-holiday syndrome in ABBA style happy new year.

PS I was dancing to the Amy Winehouse’s number with a friend the night of 23 July 2011 in Van city, little did I know that was more likely a tribute to the “drug” queen, her nake name in local Chinese press back here in Hong Kong. C’est tellement triste!

If there was anything good, that came in 2011, it must be the Jasmine Revolution, but then UK, USA and France are looking at the black gold in certain places like vultures.

With this new year coming around, I wish you have all the stamina like the rabbit, just like that battery commercial seen in many countries years ago.
Photo tour for first day of CNY.

On commerce avec des couleurs variées pour chauffer ton coeur.

先由顏色鮮豔的花朵暖暖身吧

flower market 1

encore des fleurs

flower market 2

no market is complete without the ridicule on politicians and bureaucrats

will the two men responsisble for HKG's public safety acting like rabbits on LSD this year?!?

PS LSD – double entendre – League of Social Democrats, a political party in HKG, or… you know

兔年商販的文字遊戲

美元有幾叻 i.e., How good is the American dollar

American $$$? Aparting from “hot money” flooding foreign markets as a result of QE2 like the flooding in Australia, I don’t see much positives to it. Perhaps we should do as this vendor says, use it to “wipe our asses”

部分八月份拍的上海世博照片在中秋（後；是的有點兒馬後砲）拿出來慶節倒有意想不到的效果。當然，我中秋期間拍的照片也一拼奉上。。。。。。Expo pavilions as lanterns? More plausible than you think, at least in photos, plus the real lanterns from the ‘carnival’ in Hong Kong!

Taiwan pavilion @ Shanghai Expo 2010 上海世博 台灣館

Macau pavilion, below on the right, needs some imagination, which you do have abundant supply, don’t you? 右方澳門館的白兔燈籠，不用憑空想像吧？